Title
A hierarchical unsupervised spectral clustering scheme for detection of prostate cancer from magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS).
Abstract
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) along with MRI has emerged as a promising tool in diagnosis and potentially screening for prostate cancer. Surprisingly little work, however, has been done in the area of automated quantitative analysis of MRS data for identifying likely cancerous areas in the prostate. In this paper we present a novel approach that integrates a manifold learning scheme (spectral clustering) with an unsupervised hierarchical clustering algorithm to identify spectra corresponding to cancer on prostate MRS. Ground truth location for cancer on prostate was determined from the sextant location and maximum size of cancer available from the ACRIN database, from where a total of 14 MRS studies were obtained. The high dimensional information in the MR spectra is non linearly transformed to a low dimensional embedding space and via repeated clustering of the voxels in this space, non informative spectra are eliminated and only informative spectra retained. Our scheme successfully identified MRS cancer voxels with sensitivity of 77.8%, false positive rate of 28.92%, and false negative rate of 20.88% on a total of 14 prostate MRS studies. Qualitative results seem to suggest that our method has higher specificity compared to a popular scheme, z-score, routinely used for analysis of MRS data.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
MICCAI (2)
mrs study,unsupervised hierarchical clustering algorithm,hierarchical unsupervised spectral,prostate mrs,popular scheme,prostate cancer,magnetic resonance spectroscopy,mrs data,repeated clustering,spectral clustering,mrs cancer voxels,prostate mrs study,false positive rate,ground truth,magnetic resonance imaging,cluster analysis,manifold learning,artificial intelligence,hierarchical clustering,quantitative analysis
Field
DocType
Volume
Voxel,Hierarchical clustering,False positive rate,Spectral clustering,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Independent component analysis,Prostate cancer,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Nonlinear dimensionality reduction
Conference
10
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
Pt 2
0302-9743
3-540-75758-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.84
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pallavi Tiwari111914.87
Anant Madabhushi21736139.21
Mark Rosen380.84